Senior Associate Software Development Engineer, Workday
Big Data Services
CA$92-138k
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$92-138k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years experience in software development engineering, preferably within a SaaS environment
- 2+ years of distributed systems engineering experience, primarily in Java and Python
- Experience with one or more of the following: Scala, Python, Ruby
- Knowledge of enterprise security, encryption at-rest and in-motion, authentication and authorization
- Good understanding of how Hadoop/Spark clusters work
- Familiar with distributed computing design patterns
- Familiar with agentic software development
- Experience deploying to Kubernetes and Docker
- General knowledge about public cloud capabilities and architecture
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
What the job involves
- Welcome to the Big Data Services team! We are responsible for the Big Data Platform that serves Workday analytics and machine-learning applications running in our private data centers, AWS, and GCP
- We provide a highly-available, highly-scalable data services platform related to persistence, compute and enterprise security
- Our services enable Workday to quickly and efficiently scale to meet the needs of our multi-billion-dollar customer base. We are crucial to the Workday Analytics family of products
- We power reporting, analytics, machine learning, and other data-centric applications. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we do things
- The Workday Big Data Platform team is seeking enthusiastic, innovative, self-motivated engineers to craft and implement outstanding solutions in one of the biggest hybrid-cloud environments on Earth
- The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting our fault-tolerant, high-performance platform for data analytics
- Develop scalable solutions for both Workday private data centers and public cloud
- Rapidly build new applications and automate operations on one of the largest big data clusters on Earth
- Modernize our on-premise Hadoop infrastructure to provide public-cloud-like services
- Work on multiple types of software development including REST services, logging/monitoring, and DevOps
- Collaborate with other team members to deliver innovative tools that solve challenging problems
- Improve our teams technical capabilities by applying cutting-edge technologies
- Serve in an on-call rotation for handling urgent production issues
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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